COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONBottled, Pasteurised. This dark golden coloured ale hugs the palate with great intensity. Its malty aroma is complemented by the gentle nose of Banana. Its flavour unfolds with a sensual sparkle and a smart crispness, which balances its aroma perfectly. Tropically fruity; its ripe banana flavour, emphasised by a hint of bitterness, comes from the addition of real fair trade bananas and finishes with an emphatic, steely dryness.
2005 Recipe changed from 5.5% to 5.2%

500 ml bottle. Pours a very thin looking clear light amber with lots of large bubbles clinging to the side of my Duvel tulip and a medium sized bubbly white head. Aroma is decent enough with a big malt backbone of biscuit and perhaps a slightntouch of nuts with the banana only coming in secondary and was nicely done by being obvious yet not overpowering. Thin body with far too much carbonation that bangs around inside your mouth and down your throat almost like they carbonated this beer with pop rocks. Initial flavor of malts that leads way to banana in the aftertaste and finishes rather dry. Try your best to burp about a minute after you swallow because you would swear that you just ate a fresh banana.....honest.

I can smell the banana bread aroma from nearly 2 feet away! It is a relatively pleasant aroma overall. It makes you think that this beer will be sweet, but actually it is not. Quite dry, with essence of banana flavor. Slightly malty, and no hops to speak of at all. Interesting, and not as bad as I was expecting.

That label sure is eye-catching - a pint bursting from a banana peel - when you see that, you say to yourself, "you know this stuff is going to suck, but you just have to try it" - because, címon, itís a pint bursting from a banana peel, man! - and the beer actually ainít half bad - it doesnít look so hot - uber-filtered, clear straw color, with pretty much no head - but it does get better from there - banana is quite prevalent in the aroma, some hints of other tropical fruits, a touch of vanilla, and some butterscotch/diacytel-ish notes - quite crisp, with a medium bitterness, like a standard british bitter - banana makes itís presence known, and lasts through the finish, but is actually fairly pleasant - some notes of apricot and peach crop up near the finish, and the bitterness kicks up a notch, bringing with it a light biscuity malt flavor, which adds some weight to the beer, making it finish a bit heavier than the clean, crisp character it begins with suggests - I would throw this into a session to mix things up a bit.

Bottle. Pours a thin dark golden amber with a thin head the dissapeared quicly. Overwheming smell of bananas and alcohol. Flavor was also of bananas and alcohol. Tasted started off very ale like than the nasty banana flavors finished it off. Iíll probably never drink this again.

Savannah, Ga. - Habersham Beverage Warehouse - 1 pt 3.25 oz sturdy bottle. Medium copper colored pour, spritzy white head that fades rather quickly. Aroma of bananas of course - the artificial flavor type - like water taffy or bubble gum. Banana-like essence carries over to the flavor as well. If you close your eyes, you can taste the banana bread - not the kind made by your mom with week old bananas, but the kind found in a grocery store. Gets better as it warms - some nuttiness comes through with some citrusy bitterness making its way through. Mouthfeel is a bit thin and turns somewhat metallic near the end of the bottle. Not bad for a novelty beer.

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